adventures in refashioning

I’ve been seeing a lot of tutorials on refashioning men’s shirt lately. They look pretty simple so I thought I’d give it a try. Here’s one shirt that Mike doesn’t wear anymore and donated to me. I basically just cut off the collar and made two straight cuts down the sides…

Ta-da! Not too shabby, as Mike himself would say! I just hemmed the neckline by folding the edge over twice and stitching it. The sides and arm holes I sewed together like I did for the pillowcase dress, to make fray-free seams. And for the elastic waist, I measured and cut a piece of 1/4″ elastic by wrapping it around my waist without stretching it, then sewed it directly to the mid-section of the tunic by stretching it slightly as I sewed. There must be a better way of doing that though, because it was really hard to get it even all around… but it looked alright in the end.

I had to cut off so much of the bottom as well because for reasons I don’t remember I’ve cut of a rectangle of fabric from the hem of the shirt a while ago…

And I didn’t roll up the sleeve cuff like it is in the tutorial, because of my fray-free seams construction, but I think it looks alright :D

Oh yes and I swapped the white buttons for blue ones :D

Also looks alright with a wide belt.

And as you can see, I’m still very much in love with the wall of yarn, even though I haven’t yet worked on a better solution to contain the yarn — it makes a fun background for photos!

Speaking of solutions for containing the yarn — thank you so much for all your wonderful suggestions! I have a pretty good idea that I want to try and it really came out of reading all of the comments left on the wall of yarn post. Thank you so much for sharing your great ideas and knowledge with me!

Have a lovely evening, or morning, or afternoon — wherever you may be! :D

I absolutely love all of your latest refashions! They’re great. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make some of my wimpy looking old shirts become something much cooler, but no ideas yet. :/ So I love seeing everything that you’ve done with yours!

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about genuine mudpie

Hello, my name is Trish. I like to make things (particularly with yarn). This is a place where I share my crafty endeavours and things that inspire me. Thank you for visiting! Would love to hear from you — feel free to leave a comment! :D